Common inventory modeling assumptions that fall short: Arborescent networks, Poisson demand, and single-echelon approximations

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 488-499

  Cattani, Kyle D ^a   Jacobs, F Robert ^a   Schoenfelder, Jan ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Centralized versus decentralized control; Distribution inventory; Inventory modeling assumptions; Multi echelon

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC LITERATURE; CENTRAL WAREHOUSE; CENTRALIZED VERSUS DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTION INVENTORY; INVENTORY MODELING; INVENTORY MODELING ASSUMPTIONS; LEADTIME; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTI-ECHELON INVENTORY; MULTIECHELON; POISSON DEMANDS; PRODUCT DEMAND; SAFETY STOCK; STANDARD ASSUMPTIONS; SUPPLY CHAIN STRUCTURES; THEORETICAL MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS; WAREHOUSES;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 79955063820     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2010.11.008     Document Type: Article

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